Chessify Reviews

So I was told in needed to purchase to scan a book pdf but Chessify defaults to silver which won’t scan books. Trusting Chessify I paid for the silver but then realized the mistake as it still wouldn’t scan the pdf. So I upgraded to gold. But the broken app still shows I have silver year even though I paid for the one month of gold. So I tried to cancel everything and get my money back but cancelling not available for a couple days. Then the gold was able to be canceled but not the silver. Just avoid the whole mess. A nightmare and basically they took the money and I got nothing of what I wanted and I can’t get a refund. Buyer beware.

App used to scan positions and have analysis. Now the scanning functionality doesn’t render correctly. They also added a paywall. I don’t mind supporting developers, but adding a paywall for an app where it’s most basic functionality doesn’t work is ridiculous.

I use Chessify primarily to solve tactics puzzles so I rely on the camera scan function a lot. However, 3 out of 5 times I scan a board the recognition is buggy. Either the board GUI is completely blank, or it shows an initial board. Missing a rank or file is not even failure to me since it at least recognizes part of the board. I subscribe to the analysis service but this scan bug makes Chessify essentially unusable. I hope it could be fixed in the coming updates.

This used to be great: cloud chess engine much more powerful than a good PC, on your phone, for a reasonable price. Now the speed (nps) of ‘Superfast’ analysis is abysmal - my phone czn fo same or better, for free. In addition, very often Chessify does bot even get past the starting screen, basically does not work at all. This is unfortunate because they website , separate from Chessify subscription, is still great (they need to optimize their interface, but analysis speed is excellent).

Scan from camera often has a mistake or two but no big deal. What’s most lacking is the ability to use the scans as tactics problems ie seeing if you can work out the best move and have the software tell you if you were correct or not without going into analysis mode.

One of my biggest complaints with Chessify is how easily it just loses the position when your device goes on standby. I understand there’s a save feature, but most of the time we get sidetracked by something and don’t remember to save. Please implement an auto-save of some kind if app can’t stay running in a low-power state in the background.

Also, iPad support should be a no brainer here. Are there plans for iPad support soon?

Major issue with the latest update. It is heating my iPhone 12 Pro.

The Scan function alone would make Chessify a must-have. The other features are more than icing. Thanks!

The subject says it all. Boards are no longer scanned successfully.

First off Chessify is great so far
I am able to organize Chess boards from a book i am studying.

However,
When I take photos of boards my photos show newest at the Top
For some reason when looking at my photos from Chessify it switched the order of just the boards.
This is just the data entry phase very boring and cookie cutter
It’s amazing how wrong you can be when entering information for the wrong board.
It’s actually making my head spin

Just letting you know this happened

Again Chessify looks like exactly what I am looking for to organize my study of this book

Keep you updated on how it goes

I love Chessify , but when doing analysis and running Stockfish I can see that someone is better but how do we know which color pieces have the advantage. It appears to be the same color for both. Some indication of who is better would be great.

I would only ask for a connection windows

Excellent in scanning and placing the board correctly, also can help you analyze the game. Make things easier for you, thank you :)

Won’t scan diagrams on computer just keeps thinking.

I read a lot of chess books and spend too much time setting up all the positions they are going over. I got Chessify so I can take a picture of the board in the book, and play out the position easily without spending time on setup. Chessify is perfect for that and seems to do other stuff too .

The rotation button in the scan UI doesn’t do anything.
Everything else about Chessify is great.

the ability to scan printed chess positions and have Chessify convert to playable positions with ability to export to any program opens up a new universe: the connection of printed chess books to ChessBase and similar programs. Well played, developers!!

I love that I can save a game, but I’d love to add more moves to it after re-opening, save again for later without having to save to a *new* board. Or am I missing something??

This is the only app I found for iOS to scan image and recognizes the position accurately.

Can you please make it able to share position to Lichess app?

Edit : yes it does work , I forgot to edit my review . Great app! Thanks.

Chessify makes it so much easier to study chess! I much prefer to study with books and Chessify makes that process much more efficient, saving me the time from setting up a position.

Scan(photo) and analyze. Very helpful when do chess puzzle on paper books!